There are plans to speed limit all new cars but whenever they change something about cars, if your car is older than the law change you can still use it, for example if your car was built with no seat belts you can drive it around like that. Bull bars are also banned but if your car already had them they can stay on, another example.

A disproportionate number of young drivers are killed on the roads at night and the time of day may have been more of a factor in this case. A relatively low-powered car could reach enough speed for fatal consequences if it comes of the road and crashes into a tree.

There were plans early in 2018 to adopt a similar scheme to those in Australia, the United States and New Zealand where newly qualified drivers are unable to drive after daylight or carry passengers under the age of 25 unless they are supervised. The new plans did also propose a restricting the engine size for new drivers to stop ‘boy racers’.